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>> No.9515168

>has anyone here actually read...

no

>> No.9515169

I'll never read Ratboy Genius' mommy porn

>> No.9515177

>>9515166
Not down with faggots desu senpaitachi

>> No.9515188

>>9515166
just the first part. its cool

>> No.9515208

>>9515166
I know a lot of people have these books on their shelves. All of them say they're stunning books. We all know about the madeleines, and so do they. They have not read the books, though, but find the books important. Valuable.

>> No.9515229

>>9515166
I was gonna but then my copy of your pic related edition had massive typographical errors in pt. 4 that made it unreadable.

And that was like two years ago and I'd have to start it all over again but I cba but I want to but I won't bc who has time for rereading Proust

>> No.9515252

I haven't even read six other books, who the fuck has the time?

>> No.9515317

>>9515166

Literally no one. Not the most ardent lovers of classic novel, nor the most learned university professors.

Everyone who says they do is a fucking liar and deserves to be blinded so they can't read, deafened so they can't listen to audio books, and have their hands cut off so they can't read braille.

>> No.9515354

>>9515317
I understand your sentiment (unless you're being ironic, then lmao). I read the first 2 books, but gradually at the end began to read it more and more slowly until, without much ado, I stopped reading it, and i'm not really planning to read the rest. It feels like not much more that satisfying or worthwhile could happen.

Nabokov supposedly read it all, though, and has comments to make on all of it (he says the first half is much better and the 2nd half begins to taper in quality).

>> No.9515373
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9515373

No need to read it.
>Valéry explains that the value of Proust’s work lies in its remarkable ability to be opened at random to any page: "The interest of his work lies in each fragment. We can open the book wherever we choose; its vitality does not depend on what went before, on a sort of acquired illusion; it depends on what might be called the active properties of the very tissue of the text."
>Valéry’s stroke of genius lies in showing that his method of non-reading is actually necessitated by the author, and that abstaining from reading Proust’s work is the greatest compliment he can give him. Thus, as he concludes his article (with a tribute to “difficult authors” who will soon be understood by no one), he barely conceals that, having accomplished his critical task, he has no more intention of reading Proust than ever.

>> No.9515483

>>9515166
Yep. Gets a shit load better after Swanns Way. If you don't finish you miss out on:
-All the exquisite descriptions of gay sex
-The best depiction in any novel of sexual insecurity, makes Othello seem like a ladybird book
-It's actually got a very conventional ABC beginning middle end plot, it's just very slow. It's a test match not an ODI

>> No.9515511

>>9515166
Just finished Swann's Way a couple days ago. The first part was a bit sluggish, but I absolutely loved "Swann in Love" and the descriptions of the Narrator falling in love with Gilberte. I've got too much else to read at the moment, but I'll definitely continue it soon.

>> No.9515520

>>9515317
Hey man I didn't bust my ass to get through that monster for you to say that shit

>> No.9515527

>>9515166
>>9515520
I read this during last semester while auditing a course devoted to the book.

>> No.9515807

>>9515317
Too bad, I read it all.

>>9515511
I liked Combray better than Swann in Love.

>> No.9515835

>>9515373
>people got paid to sit in french universities and write this drivel

>> No.9515870

>>9515835
Bayard's book is actually quite good. Don't let the tongue in cheek tone fool you. It is some sort of social study of the act of reading: it has a literary signification as much as a social one. It compares with some of Eco's best studies.

>> No.9515983

>>9515208
Is there a particular effect you are going for with this style